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TIL that the concept of “The Human Centipede” arose from a joke the director made with friends about punishing a child molester by stitching his mouth to the anus of a “fat truck driver.”

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W7g6X TIL that when writing the James Bond film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967), author Roald Dahl was given a formula for Bond girls: The first is killed by the enemy midway "preferably in Bond's arms", the second is an enemy Bond seduces who also dies, and the third survives to the end of the film.
epynb TIL - squatting in a non-residential building in the UK is not a crime
E1QB7 TIL there is a fungus which looks like a sponge and its actual scientific name is Spongiforma squarepantsii.
R7pga TIL John Hughes filmed "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" concurrently to save time and money. He even used the same closed high school for the interior scenes, but built a second library in the gym for "Breakfast Club" as the original was too small.
xVy4b TIL Dirk Willems, jailed for his devotion to being an Anabaptist, escaped from prison. But when the guard pursuing him fell through the ice, Willems turned around to save the guard. He was then recaptured, tortured, and killed.